Dr. Harold D. Thompson was recently awarded the Most Outstanding Clinical Professor Award for 2014 by the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee where he is a tenured Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. He also currently serves as Chief of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine for the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, which has two acute care hospitals and nine outpatient facilities throughout Tennessee and Kentucky. He has also in the past served as Professor and Chief of Radiology at Meharry Medical College and as both Associate and Vice Dean of the Meharry School of Medicine.

He is married to Suzanne Fletcher-Thompson MD and has three sons: Harold D. Thompson II, MD, Jason F. Thompson J.D., and Alexander F. Thompson, third year law student.